Courses
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Summer 2025
This course introduces major world religions and the scholarly methods of the academic study of religion. Religions covered may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and/or New Religious Movements. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
1110.001
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials are prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
Provides an academic overview of major religious traditions of Asia (mainly India, China, and Japan), which may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shinto, and/or Shamanism as well as popular, tribal, or new religions. Students will be assigned both primary and secondary texts. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
2110.002
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.003
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Limited to Accelerated Online Program Students Only. Computer and Internet connection required. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
Studies in major religious figures or movements. Topic varies.
347.001 T:Curanderismo without Borders
Instructor: Del Angel Guevara, Mario
Dates: Jun. 2, 2025 - Jun. 13, 2025
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Location: Anthropology 163
- Type: Topics
Fall 2025
This course introduces major world religions and the scholarly methods of the academic study of religion. Religions covered may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and/or New Religious Movements. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
1110.001
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
1110.002
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Time/s:
Location: Kiva 104
- Type: Lecture
1110.004
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
1110.008
Instructor: Barnes, William
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
An introductory study of the structure and content of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. This class provides the context and reading skills for study and investigation of the Bible and its influence upon western culture and religion.
Religion, Health, and Medicine introduces students to how people’s religious beliefs and practices influence their perspectives on health and their approaches to medical care and treatment.
1550.001
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
1550.002
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
Provides an academic overview of major religious traditions of Asia (mainly India, China, and Japan), which may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shinto, and/or Shamanism as well as popular, tribal, or new religions. Students will be assigned both primary and secondary texts. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
2110.001
Instructor: Ulrich, Katherine
Time/s:
Location: Univ Advise & Enrich Center B90
- Type: Lecture
2110.002
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Limited to Accelerated Online Program Students Only. Computer and Internet connection required. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.003
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
This is a survey course that will cover major religious traditions of the West, including the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and other religious systems. The course will focus on how each tradition has developed historically and how it exists in the world today.
2120.003
Instructor: ,
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
An examination of the social, political, and cultural aspects of fundamentalism in the contemporary Muslim world.
313.001
Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
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Location:
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as CLST 321) This course examines the development of the genre of apocalypse by reading several early Jewish apocalypses before examining the lasting influence of apocalypticism in one particular Jewish sect, Christianity.
321.001
Instructor: Gorton, Luke
Time/s:
Location: Woodward Lecture Hall 147
- Type: Lecture
This course examines Hindu scriptures and practices to understand how deities and their relationships with men and women, high and low castes, and the natural and social worlds have changed over time.
335.001
Instructor: Ulrich, Katherine
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
Studies in major religious figures or movements. Topic varies.
347.001 T: Bible as Literature
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Topics
347.003 T: Mysticism: East & West
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Topics
347.004 T: AI & Human Life
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Topics
347.005 T: Religion & Bioethics
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Topics
347.006 T: Curanderismo
Instructor: Del Angel Guevara, Mario
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials are prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Topics
This course introduces students to the history of Roman Catholicism in the United States, emphasizing the interaction of Catholicism with politics and culture, and the religious lives of ordinary Catholics.
351.001
Instructor: Holscher, Kathleen
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Location:
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as HIST 441) This class will cover the rise and development of the nation's religious groups, from first contact to the present day. The focus will be on the social impact of the groups and how they influenced the development of American life.
441.002
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM CANVAS
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Seminar
Faculty-supervised individual study in an area of special interest not readily available through conventional course offerings. Restriction: permission of program chairperson.
497.001
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
- Type: Seminar
497.002
Instructor: Holscher, Kathleen
- Type: Seminar
497.003
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.004
Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.005
Instructor: Yates, Franklin
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.006
Instructor: Gorton, Luke
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.008
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.009
Instructor: ,
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.010
Instructor: ,
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.011
Instructor: Lipka, Hilary
Location:
- Type: Seminar